SAS Programming BASE certification course for SAS Beginners
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Try Udemy for Business- This course is suitable for the new practical BASE programming credential: SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.4
- Software installation (SAS University Edition /SAS studio): the complete & step-by-step guide; detailed explanation on File path/directory in SAS studio
- Get Data in various format into SAS: (read .txt file, .csv file, Excel file, format input (using SAS informat to read dates; use SAS format to display SAS date values). Proc Import, Proc Export, Proc Content)
- Create temporary and permanent SAS data sets (SET statement, LIBNAME statement, SAS libraries )
- Combine data sets (Concatenate, Append, interleave, Match Merge (one -to-one merge, one-to-many merge))
- Use SAS Functions to manipulate SAS date values (Explanation on how SAS stores date and time values, SAS functions include MDY, YEAR, QTR, MONTH, DAY, WEEKDAY, TODAY, DATE, INTCK, DATDIF, YRDIF)
- Use SAS Functions to manipulate character and numeric data values (use SAS functions to Convert Character & Numeric Value (auto-convert; PUT & INPUT functions), Other SAS functions include: SCAN, SUBSTR, TRIM, UPCASE, LOWCASE, PROPCASE, CATX, INDEX, TRANWRD, INT, ROUND)
- Conditionally execute SAS statements: IF-THEN/ELSE, DO and END statements
- Simplify your data with Array (One dimensional array; two dimensional array; Creating Variables in an ARRAY Statement; Assigning Initial Values to Arrays & Creating Temporary Array Elements)
- Process data with DO LOOPS (the basic of DO LOOPS; constructing DO LOOPS; Conditionally Executing DO Loops using DO UNTIL and DO WHILE; Using Conditional Clauses with the Iterative DO Statement)
- Work with data & Creating labels and formats (Use assignment statements in the DATA step; Use LABEL and FORMAT statements to modify attributes in a DATA step; Define the length of a variable using the LENGTH statement; Control which observations and variables using DROP, KEEP statements and DROP=, KEEP= options, and IF statement)
- SAS Statistical Procedures: Proc SORT; Proc PRINT; Proc MEANS; Proc FREQ; Proc UNIVARIATE
- Generate list reports using the PRINT procedure (using VAR, SUM, WHERE, ID and BY statements)
- Generate reports using ODS statements (Identify ODS destinations, create HTML, PDF, RTF, and Excel files with ODS statements)
- Reconstruct/Reshape SAS Data sets in DATA step and using Proc TRANSPOSE
- SAS advanced topic: Proc SQL Essentials
- SAS advanced topic: SAS Macros Essentials
- Basic computer skills
Do you want to start learning SAS programming easily and quickly? This course is the most complete SAS BASE certification programming course for
absolute SAS beginners
anyone interested in passing the SAS BASE certification exam
suitable for the new practical SAS programming certificate: SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.4
Coding exercises and projects are perfect for for the practical coding questions for the new SAS BASE certificate exam
You may compare the contents covered in this course with the official SAS BASE certification Exam contents (the new practical exam is SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.4) and SAS BASE certification prep guide (due to Udemy policy, I can not include the SAS link here).
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step by step/ code by code explanations for easy and efficient learning experiences
most complete SAS BASE course for beginners and the SAS BASE certification exam(suitable for the new practical SAS programming certificate: SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.4)
This course is a combined course to offer the maxim benefit for my students, it includes contents from the following individual courses
1. SAS programming for beginners
2. SAS programming on data manipulation and preparation part 1: modify variables
3. SAS programming on data manipulation and preparation part 2: combine/merge data sets
4. Overview / Essentials for SAS advanced topics: SAS SQL (Proc SQL) and SAS Macro Language
5. Additional topics: Error handling, Generate reports using ODS statements
downloadable data and SAS programs used in the course (the course materials are ONLY for practice, they are protected by copyright)
Quizzes, coding exercises and projects for practice. After all, practice makes perfection!
Coding exercises and projects are perfect for for the practical coding questions for the new certificate exam on SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.4
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Current course contents: (Please see course curriculum for more detailed information on sections and lectures included in this course)
Software installation (SAS University Edition /SAS studio): the complete & step-by-step guide; detailed explanation on File path/directory in SAS studio
Navigate/work in SAS environment
Get Data in various format into SAS: (read .txt file, .csv file, Excel file, format input (using SAS informat to read dates; use SAS format to display SAS date values). Proc Import)
Create temporary and permanent SAS data sets (SET statement, LIBNAME statement, SAS libraries )
Combine data sets (Concatenate, Append, interleave, Match Merge (one -to-one merge, one-to-many merge))
Use SAS Functions to manipulate SAS date values (Explanation on how SAS stores date and time values, SAS functions include MDY, YEAR, QTR, MONTH, DAY, WEEKDAY, TODAY, DATE, INTCK, DATDIF, YRDIF)
Use SAS Functions to manipulate character and numeric data values (use SAS functions to Convert Character & Numeric Value (auto-convert; PUT & INPUT functions), Other SAS functions include: SCAN, SUBSTR, TRIM, UPCASE, LOWCASE, PROPCASE, CATX, INDEX, TRANWRD, INT, ROUND)
Conditionally execute SAS statements: IF-THEN/ELSE, DO and END statements
Simplify your data with Array (One dimensional array; two dimensional array; Creating Variables in an ARRAY Statement; Assigning Initial Values to Arrays & Creating Temporary Array Elements)
Process data with DO LOOPS (the basic of DO LOOPS; constructing DO LOOPS; Conditionally Executing DO Loops using DO UNTIL and DO WHILE; Using Conditional Clauses with the Iterative DO Statement)
Work with data & Creating labels and formats (Use assignment statements in the DATA step; Use LABEL and FORMAT statements to modify attributes in a DATA step; Define the length of a variable using the LENGTH statement; Control which observations and variables using DROP, KEEP statements and DROP=, KEEP= options, and IF statement)
SAS Statistical Procedures: Proc SORT; Proc PRINT; Proc MEANS; Proc FREQ; Proc UNIVARIATE, Proc Export, Proc Content
Generate list reports using the PRINT procedure (using VAR, SUM, WHERE, ID and BY statements)
Generate reports using ODS statements (Identify ODS destinations, create HTML, PDF, RTF, and Excel files with ODS statements)
Reconstruct/Reshape SAS Data sets in DATA step and using Proc TRANSPOSE
SAS advanced topic: Proc SQL Essentials
SAS advanced topic: SAS Macros Essentials
References:
SAS certification prep guide: base programming by SAS Institute
The little SAS book: a primer / Lora D. Delwiche and Susan J. Slaughter
Learning SAS by example: a programmer's guide / Ron Cody
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- absolute SAS beginners
- Anyone interested in taking SAS BASE certification exam
Hello Everyone,
This lecture is to contain ALL the course materials for this course: SAS codes/programs and Data files used in this course
SAS codes/programs and Data files, + PPTs (Power Point slides)
Please download the .zip folders (one for SAS programs; one for data sets)
all files the .zip folders are in their original SAS format, or data format
Multiple lectures may share/use one SAS program
Please copy and paste all the single files included in the .zip folders (NOT folder) into the folder \SASUniversityEdition\myfolders , which you created when downloading and set up SAS University Edition
All course materials are ONLY for practice. They are copy right protected.
The file names inside each zip files may not be exactly the same as the ones shown in the lectures since I added a lot of extra videos at later stage and I added prefixes to the original file names. BUT by not paying much to the prefixes of the file names, it is relatively easy to match the file names in the zip files with the ones appeared in the lectures.
Example:
array.sas (in zip file)
beginner_array.sas (in lecture)
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This video is for some of you who can not use the installed/downloaded SAS University Edition to access FREE SAS software SAS studio for learning. You can use SAS onDemand for academics (which is a free access Web-based SAS studio offered by SAS official site) and still be able to use all my SAS programs and data files. Hope this helps!